Agent skill creator
Public collection of agent skills — reusable capabilities, prompts, and workflows for Claude Code and other agentic coding tools.
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Authors new skills for the agent-skills repo with consistent format — tight SKILL.md, frontmatter, references for depth, and a pre-merge checklist. Use when adding a new skill to github.com/Solonnikov/agent-skills, standardizing an existing skill, or auditing a skill's structure.
SKILL.md
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Agent Skill Creator
Meta-skill for writing new skills in this repository. Enforces the format so every skill in the repo stays discoverable, lean, and useful.
When to use
- Adding a new skill to
skills/. - Reviewing a PR that adds or modifies a skill.
- Refactoring an existing skill that has drifted from the format (too long, no references, missing frontmatter).
Authoring workflow
- Pick a tight scope. One skill = one job. If the description has "and" in it twice, split it.
- Choose a kebab-case name. Matches the folder name. Short, specific —
wagmi-contract-interaction, notethereum-stuff. - Create the folder under
skills/<skill-name>/with areferences/subfolder. - Write the SKILL.md frontmatter (see frontmatter rules).
- Draft a tight
SKILL.md— operational, not encyclopedic. Sections: short intro, When to use, Authoring workflow (or equivalent), Non-negotiable rules, References. - Move depth to references. Long templates, cheatsheets, checklists, step-by-step guides — all go in
references/*.md, linked from SKILL.md by description. - Run the quality checklist before the PR.
Non-negotiable rules
- Every skill has YAML frontmatter with
name(kebab-case, matches folder) anddescriptionfollowing the pattern<what it does>. Use when <trigger>. SKILL.mdstays short enough for an agent to load cheaply — aim for under 80 lines.- Depth goes in
references/. Do not duplicate content between SKILL.md and a reference. - Reference links in SKILL.md are described by what they contain, not by filename — e.g.
[Quality checklist](./references/quality-checklist.md) — pre-merge review against the non-negotiables. - Code examples in references use realistic placeholders (
<Feature>,<Token>), not real addresses, secrets, or project-specific names. - No emojis, no decorative headers, no "Note:" boxes — prefer plain prose.
References
- Frontmatter rules — required fields and pattern for the
descriptionline. - File layout — folder structure, how references are organized, what belongs where.
- Quality checklist — pre-merge review against the non-negotiables.